New Starwalt' Disease

[starwalt]

This would be -- Shingles 

Damn Chicken Pox Part Deux! 

Went to the doc-in-a-box and she prescribes an anti-viral drug.
I was happy to pay the discount at US$60.00 my cost.
The list price was about US$230 for 21 pills!

I hope everyone else had a disease-free and accident-free holiday.
Much retail therapy going on here in South Carolina. The state government declared two days of sales tax freedom.

[scratch]

Oh gosh!  Man, I hope you feel better!

[The Buddha]

Yikes ... that sounds worse than the actual starwalts disease.
Your bike gets purple spots as it wads up the magnet and chunks of it seize the starter clutch ... How is that.
Cool.
Srinath.

[rob1bike]

So sorrt to hear that! Had em when I was a teenager, sux!
I'm in sc also!



Black Friday!   

[Jughead]

Shingles? Oh F(*^! The older you get the Worse they Are.IF you go to he Doctor within 2 Days they can Probably cured them.Mom got them last year but hasn't Hadn't  had a out Break since but can still fell where they Broke out.

[FearedGS500]

yep .. finacie had them earlyer this year and she said they hurt like crap !  but take them meds and they go away pretty fast !

[starwalt]

Yep, they are a Buddha Loves You. Yeah they are irritating, like I got punched several times in the ribs, but no bruising.

The drugs leave me...drugged. I want to take a wire brush to them cause they itch so bad, but touching them makes me wince -- 

To top it off, I had to help another coworker last night change a bearing/shaft assembly on a old CT scanner. He had surgery on his shoulder and couldn't lift, I had the shingles.  What a pair! A couple of old guys half broke working on an old scanner half broke.

Darn Hitachi part had to come to us via Holland, door-to-door. Wrenching with shingles was no fun. At least the OT will be good.

[pandy]

I feel your pain, my friend. My son gave me Chicken Pox when he was 6 (damned kids!  )...I was an adult (more or less).... I didn't know I hadn't had them as a child until I got them as an adult...  What pure misery, as is having Shingles. Does Benadryl help you with the itching? It puts me to sleep, but I'd rather be sleeping than itching.

Heal up quickly. 

[starwalt]

THIS STUFF is just super.  The bugger is putting it on the sore spots.

New description of the sore spots!

Shingles - it is like getting a 2nd degree sunburn on a baseball bat bruise...in lots of places in an area of your body.

Heal up quickly. 

Thank you dear! <squinting with discomfort while typing>

[sledge]

Best wishes for a quick recovery Starwalt. I know what your going through mate. My mum has just gone down with the same thing. The rash is mainly on her forehead and she is very uncomfortable and suffering a great deal. Fortunately my sis` is a nurse and is looking after her. The bad news is that I never had chicken pox when I was a kid and I am told that as a result I am prone to catching the virus if I spend a lot of time with her. Looks like I will be having to cook my own Sunday lunches for the time being   

[pandy]

The bad news is that I never had chicken pox when I was a kid and I am told that as a result I am prone to catching the virus if I spend a lot of time with her. Looks like I will be having to cook my own Sunday lunches for the time being   

Adult chicken pox = SERIOUSLY no fun.....I'm sure your mum will understand if you keep your distance a bit (but take flowers!  )...

[Jake D]

Get better broseph.

As an aside, I've never had shingles or mono.  My roommate in law school got mono.  He went to the "Student Death Center", I mean "Student Health Center" for treatment.  They gave him a brochure to read that I still laugh about to this day.  It said on the front, "So ya got MONO!?!?"  Awsome. 

[rangerbrown]

yea i have yet to get the pox as well (23 soon) so yea i hope it never comes

[sledge]

My sis` who is an experienced nurse tells me that a severe dose of chicken pox in later life (I am 40) can effect some Gentlemen "Down below"  and lead to impotancy, erectile dysfunction even sterility  . I am somewhat concerned. Is she just winding me up or can anyone lend substance to this?

[starwalt]

Many thanks for the kind words. 

The rash/lesions are clearing up today, though they still give me 6 to 8 spikes of discomfort an hour rather than the 10 spikes every quarter hour of the last few days.

If Pandy had given me a quarter, I would have shown pictures of them to her. 

Yes Sledge, love your mum from a distance for a while. She gave you life, but right now you don't want what she's got.

I would say that if the virus damages the nerves connected to the anatomy concerned, it may be a deflating experience. 

Fortunately for me I've no problems much below my right pectoral. Even though the lesions and rash go away, the nerves can be damaged or out of sync for a while. That is usally a secondary phase/affect of shingles.

My mom had shingles and reports her skin is still numb to touch in some spots where she was afflicted.

[pandy]

That's not what I want a pic of...